Workshop Aim
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The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers from the various
areas of data mining that are relevant to the emerging world of grid
computing. By encouraging an exchange of ideas and perceptions, we hope
to foster a comprehensive view of the benefits of grid computing to the
data mining community, and of the related challenges and directions for
research.
Topics of Interest
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Possible topics of interest are any that have a bearing on data mining
and grid technologies, including but not restricted to:
* Data location and matching in the grid
* Architectures for data mining on the grid
* Scalable distributed data mining algorithms
* Privacy preserving and security in data mining algorithms
* Authentication of grid data mining computations
* Agent-based data mining
* Data mining as a Web service and as a grid component
* Virtualization of data mining software
* Data mining workflow in distributed environments
* Applications of grid data mining to specific domains (e.g.,
finance, bioinformatics, and health care)
Submitted papers must not have been published or currently be under
consideration for publication at another venue.
We are primarily interested in the algorithmic and architectural
aspects of data mining over the grid.

Questions about the conference scope should be directed to the program
co-chairs at dmgrid@cs.technion.ac.il
Important Dates
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Paper submission: September 6th, 2004 (12pm EST)
Notification: September 24th, 2004
Camera ready due: October 11th, 2004
Workshop: November 1st, 2004

Informal workshop proceedings will be published by ICDM,
and distributed at the workshop.

Submission of abstracts is not required.

Full papers in PDF format must be submitted by September 6th, 2004
(12pm Eastern Standard Time). Papers should be in the ICDM camera
ready format (IEEE 2-column format), and limited to 10 pages of US
"Letter" size paper (8.5 by 11 inches).

Questions about the submission process should be directed to the
program co-chairs at dmgrid@cs.technion.ac.il.
Workshop Format
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Our goal in this workshop is to foster a multi-perspective view of
the possibilities and the challenges of data mining in grid
environments. We intend to encourage interaction and exchange of
ideas among the participants. For this reason we expect to have
longer than usual Q&A periods after paper presentations and, time
permits, a panel discussion.
Organizing Committee
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Program Chairs:
Assaf Schuster Ran Wolff
assaf@cs.technion.ac.il and ranw@cs.technion.ac.il
CS, Technion, Israel CS, Technion, Israel
Program Committee:
* Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University
* Yonatan Aumann, Bar-Ilan University
* Roberto Bayardo, I.B.M. Almaden
* Chris Clifton, Purdue University
* Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster
* Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
* Jürgen Franke, DaimlerChrysler AG
* Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut
* Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
* Michael May, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems
* Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
* Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
* Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida
* Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel
* Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana
* Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore
* Ran Wolff, Technion, Israel
* Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute